Do we become what we hate?
This is a question that occupies a fair amount of real estate in the thinking gardens of my head. It’s difficult to cross-check whether this is an actual question or a reflex of the fear generated by the mere thought of it.
On some level, the “hate” itself is manufactured by the fear of it, taking over. The hate is nothing but a protective shield to not let that fear form structures.
Fear can be for breaking societal decorum or simply carried forward ideologies. The inertia of moving away from an accepted notion by others or by ourselves in the past, is arduous.
Is it a blurred line we’re running from ?
Explaining the answer to, “why we hate something?” is critical. It brings clarity and tries to shake the foundation on which that hate stands for. You can apply this to any circumstance and it comes out with a form of certainty.
This is the easier part. The difficult part is to Un-hate.
Unhate. Because if we don’t do that, we gravitate towards those very pits which we hated in the first place. It doesn’t take much to become what we hate!